Outcomes of an Inpatient Dialysis Start in Patients With Kidney Graft Failure: A Population-Based Multicentre Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The frequency and outcomes of starting maintenance dialysis in the hospital as an inpatient in kidney transplant recipients with graft failure are poorly understood.

Objective

To determine the frequency of inpatient dialysis starts in patients with kidney graft failure and examine whether dialysis start status (hospital inpatient vs outpatient setting) is associated with all-cause mortality and kidney re-transplantation.

Design

Population-based cohort study.

Setting

We used linked administrative healthcare databases from Ontario, Canada.

Patients

We included 1164 patients with kidney graft failure from 1994 to 2016.

Measurements

All-cause mortality and kidney re-transplantation.

Methods

The cumulative incidence function was used

SUBMITTER: Naylor KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7841655 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature